The Cryonic Woman
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| Futurama episode | |
| "The Cryonic Woman" | |
 Fry and his girlfriend Michelle. |
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| Episode no. | 32 |
| Prod. code | 2ACV19 |
| Airdate | December 3, 2000 |
| Writer(s) | J. Stewart Burns |
| Director | Mark Ervin |
| Opening subtitle | Not a Substitute for Human Interaction |
| Opening cartoon | Unknown |
| Guest star(s) | Pauly Shore as himself Sarah Silverman as Michelle |
| Season 2 November 1999 – December 2000 |
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"The Cryonic Woman" is the nineteenth and final episode of production season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on December 3, 2000, as the third episode of the third broadcast season with a plot incorporating a cryonics theme.
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[edit] Plot
In an attempt to entertain themselves, Fry and Bender borrow the Planet Express Ship. Unfortunately, the ship is anchored to the building using the unbreakable diamond tether that was first mentioned on The Deep South. As the ship is piloted on a round-the-world joyride, the building is dragged behind it, smashing into a number of landmarks, including the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Great Wall of China (which allows the Mongols to invade). Professor Farnsworth has Hermes Conrad fire Fry and Bender for taking the ship, and fires Leela as well for leaving the keys in the ship.
Leela re-implants her and Fry's old career chips, but she mixes them up. Fry gets hired for Leela's old cryogenics counselor job; Leela is forced to be a delivery boy while Bender has the hand and the career chip from the Prime minister of Norway. Fry thaws out Pauly Shore, who was supposed to be thawed out in Hollywood, California. When Fry goes to greet the next thawed person, he is shocked to find that it is his old girlfriend, Michelle (played by Sarah Silverman).
Fry introduces Michelle to the world of the year 3000, but she has problems adapting. She re-freezes both herself, and Fry, for another thousand years. They awake in a desolate wasteland. They try to make a new life in the world of the future, and join a society of feral adolescents. When the children are picked up for Hebrew lessons by an adult woman in a heavily armored SUV, a confused Fry, tired of Michelle's nagging, leaves her and wanders through the wilderness on his own.
After wandering through a cloud of green mist, Fry finds himself standing in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. The Planet Express ship lands in the street, and the crew explains that Fry is in Los Angeles, in the year 3000. Fry was in Pauly Shore's tube, and when the delivery crew discovered en route to Hollywood that Pauly Shore wasn't in the tube, they tossed it overboard. A limousine passes by, revealing that Michelle has hooked up with Pauly.
As the Planet Express ship flies home, Fry asks The Professor if he can have his job back. The Professor forgets why he fired Fry in the first place and almost gives Fry his job back--until Bender reminds him of what happened earlier in the episode. The Professor ends up dropping Fry through a trap door, though he ends up re-hired in all subsequent episodes.
[edit] Cultural references
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- The title for this episode comes from the '70s TV show The Bionic Woman.
- The painting tattooed on Sal's stomach, which was previously shown in Fry's apartment in "A Fishful of Dollars", is done in the style of 1980s pop-artist, Patrick Nagel.
- While Fry is deciding which celebrity to unfreeze for his amusement, "Weird Al" Yankovic can be seen in the middle capsule, to which Fry reacts with a disgusted "noooooo." Yankovic regularly shows this clip in his concerts. Billy West, the voice of Fry, used to be the narrator for The Weird Al Show.
- The sign on the building of the Museum of Modern Art now reads "Museum of Really Modern Art".
[edit] Foreshadowing
- Fry mentions that in the 30th century, "brains flew through space". In the episode "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", the flying brains (the Brainspawn) will be introduced.
- Michelle's fiancé, Charles, makes a cameo appearance in Bender's Big Score. However, he now sports a soul patch and is introduced as Constantine.
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